ECL Women 2016/17 – 12 clubs announced

The seeding list for the 2016/17 European Champions League Women is announced, involving again 12 clubs in four groups. The draw will take place in Zagreb at the European Youth Championships on the 10th July.

The finalists from the previous season, TTC BERLIN EASTSIDE E.V (Germany) and KTS – TARNOBRZEG (Poland) will be again no. 1 and no. 2 seeds respectively. German side, triple ECLW champion should be considered as huge favorite, bearing in mind that world’s no. 29 Miyu KATO joins four players who finished 2015/16 ECLW with 10-0 score and won Triple Crown last year, Petrissa SOLJA (no. 13), SHAN Xiaona (no. 17), Georgina POTA (no. 40) and Yui HAMAMOTO (no. 41). This is the first time that one club has five players ranked among the best 41 at the ITTF World ranking list.

BURSA BÜYÜKŞEHİR BELEDİYESPOR finished on the bottom of Group A last year, but this time Turkish club starts as no. 4 seed, having one strong newcomer from Singapore, world’s no. 16 YU Mengyu. HU Melek (no. 22) and Alexandra PRIVALOVA are other two names in the line-up.

Elizabeta SAMARA (no. 30) moved from Turkey to France. Actual individual European champion is a new member of METZ TT.

Double ECLW winner LINZ AG FROSCHBERG has changed its squad and this time occupies no. 8 at the seeding list. LIU Jia and Sofia POLCANOVA stayed as two best players in the line-up of 2009 and 2013 ECLW champion.

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